Singapore as Britain's oriental naval base and emporium
National Geographic notes Singapore as a key Royal Navy bastion and global trading hub famed as the Emproium of the Orient. It describes docks, ships, and its status as a free port with vast trade from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, plus the city’s blend of Chinese, Malay, and European influences and its rail and air links.
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United States Navy
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Singapore
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Great Britain
Gibraltar
New York
Oval
Malay Peninsula
China Sea
Mediterranean
Seleter
Johore
Netherlands Indies
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Straits Settlements
India
America
Sumatra
Morocco
Java
Australia
Canada
Africa
China
Japan
Philippines
Europe
Tropics
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Siam
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Marco Polo
Raffles Hotel
Raffles Square
Stamford Raffles
Netherlands
Indies
Raffles
Sultan Husain
Singhapura
City of the Lion
Spencer Name Meaning as Occupation Origin
Spencer or Spenser is an old English Latin name meaning dispenser of provisions. It began as a surname and is now common as a given name.
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Spencer
Spenser
Engagement Questions And A Warned Heart
A reader asks about a two year engagement where the fiancée postpones the wedding and refuses to publicly acknowledge the relationship. The advisor argues the fiancée holds back to keep options open, showing she is not marriage minded and urges the reader to move on and not wait for a change.
Daughter’s Troubled Marriage and Household Burden
A mother seeks advice on a daughter whose husband earns little and cannot support a wife. The counselor urges the daughter to improve housekeeping, view the marriage as a partnership, and have the daughter help more at home to relieve the overworked mother. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Ear Doris Dene
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Texas Sheriff Bans Deputies Hats Boots and Guns
Amarillo area sheriff Bill Adams forbids deputies from wearing cowboy hats boots or displaying big six shooters saying there is no need for such trappings. The policy aims to project a restrained image in the Texas Panhandle ranch country.
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Amarillo
Texas
Texas Panhandle
Bill Adams
Courageous Marion Patterson Reaches Home After 20 Months
In Beaver Falls Pennsylvania the former Geneva College student Marion Patterson, burned in April 1936 when her clothes ignited, returns home after twenty months in Providence hospital. She received a presidential note, letters from across the nation, and gifts including Katharine Hepburn’s scarf. She hopes to resume college to become a teacher.
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Beaver Falls
Providence Hospital
Marion Patterson
Geneva College
Roosevelt
Miss Patterson
Katharine Hepburn
Lois Fairley
Fenton Fairley
Lois
Sylvia the Squirrel Disrupts Church Service in Washington Heights
Sylvia the pet squirrel interrupted a Washington Heights Methodist service by crawling from a hole in the ceiling chandelier area. Police, an anti cruelty society officer, and a minister helped chase the animal across the church before a net captured it and the SPCA official removed it.
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New York
Sylvia
Washington Heights Methodist Episcopal Church
Girl Swallows Teaspoon Recovered by Surgeons
In Chicago seventeen year old Bernice Gurevits swallowed a six inch teaspoon while eating ice cream. Surgeons performed an operation and removed the spoon. She suffered no pain after the procedure.
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Chicago
Bernice Gurevits
Fingerprinting of Children Gains Traction in Minneapolis
Minneapolis parents increasingly have their children fingerprinted for identification. The voluntary program, active since 1927, aims solely at identification rather than surveillance or criminal tracking.
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Minneapolis
409 Foot Stack Erected in Marion Power Plant
A 409 foot smoke stack, claimed to be the tallest of its kind east of the Mississippi, has been put into operation at a Marion plant boosting local power output and signaling a new architected facility.
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Marion
Ohio
Mississippi River
Historic Round Tower at Fort Snelling to Become Museum
A long feature recalls Fort Snelling round tower's 1821 construction funded by whisky, its Civil War Zeppelin ties, Dred Scott’s 1837 marriage there, and years of harsh discipline under Colonel Snelling. Plans now move to convert the tower into a museum room while the Marcum family continues to occupy and renovate it.
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Fort Snelling
Minn
Julius Caesar
United States
Caesar
Sam
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Caesars
Minnesota
Mississippi River
Thomas Marcum
Marcum
Count von Zeppelin
Federal Army
von Zeppelin
St. Paul Gas Company
Germany
Dred Scott
Fort
Supreme Court
Round Tower
Scott
Dr. Emerson
Col
Josiah Snelling
St. Louis
Free Territory
Sisters Build Own Home After Tornado Damage
Grace Myers forty and Rosa Myers thirty seven bought a wrecked house and nearby land in Chariton Iowa. They rebuilt a four room residence for under five hundred dollars with their own hands. Grace notes carpentry is no harder than housework once a woman starts.
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Chariton
Iowa
Myers
Grace
Rosa
Divers Aim to Raise Galleon Treasure Off Mull
A new attempt will raise from Tobermory harbor Isle of Mull the alleged 30,000,000 ducats from the Duque Florence galleon sunk during the Elizabethan era. Dutch engineer Herr Van Wiener has permission to try recovering the gold said to lie on the sea bottom after a Highlander blew up the ship.
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London
Philip of Spain
Elizabeth of
England
Tobermory Harbor
Isle of Mull
Florence
English Channel
St. George’s Channel
Irish Sea
Scotland
Ireland
Jungle Priest Echoes Safety Of Mission Life In Amazon
After 32 years in Teffe Brazil Brother Raphel Haag, a Holy Ghost Fathers teacher, visits the United States and finds city traffic startling. He says the jungle is safer than modern cities and notes Indians trust priests in their cassocks.
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Amazon Jungle
Brother Raphel Haag
Brother Haag
America
Herman Haag
of the Holy Ghost Fathers
Teffe
Brazil
Amazon River
Raphel
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